This chapter examines the potential of government procurement as a mechanism for improving job quality and alleviating poverty and proposes ways in which these mechanisms can be strengthened so as to make them more effective. The promotion of higher labour standards through government...

Many multinational corporations now use global supply chains to produce goods and services. Multinational corporations at the top of global supply chains exert significant control over actors lower in the chain, and thereby contribute to low labour standards in the companies they source goods...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly becoming a popular business concept in developed economies. As typical of other business concepts, it is on its way to globalization through practices and structures of the globalized capitalist world order, typified in Multinational...

The interplay of infrastructure supply and demand is of central interest in line with Web 2.0. As the role of customers turns from a service users' role to an information providers' role, the traffic on existing lines increases and, simultaneously, customers' demand for high-quality...

This paper focuses on the recent novelties introduced by the ‘Almunia' Package in the regulation of activities at the intersection of the EU rules on State aid, public procurement and the financing of SGEIs. Taking the uncertainties left by the fourth Altmark condition as the point of...

We attempt to assess the commercial potential for Bamboo products in India, based upon a compilation of secondary review of data and personal communications with various stakeholders involved. It also attempts to present an account of the value chain for Bamboo products in India, and presents...

From employment to education, many areas of our daily lives have gone virtual, including the virtual workplace and virtual classes. By comparison, the way we generate, deliver, and consume electricity is an anachronism. And the electric industry’s outdated business model and regulatory...